Founded by Edna Adan Ismail the "...Edna Adan Maternity Hospital seeks to fill not only the urgent need for health care but also to provide training for a new generation of nurses and midwives qualified to provide reproductive health care throughout Somaliland...The idea of building the hospital was conceived because Somali women and children have the highest maternal and child mortality rate in the world...",Hospital website.
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Edna is very amazing. Have you seen this video? http://blog.ednahospital.org/2008/06/20/somaliland-video/
Her accomplishments are already astonishing even before you consider that she is a woman operating in a Muslim culture with particularly little respect for women.
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